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September 27, 2024
Supreme Court rejects leave to appeal three decisions touching tax, labour and human rights
The Supreme Court of Canada this week effectively upheld lower court decisions in three significant business cases, dismissing leave to appeal rulings from the Federal Court of Appeal and courts of appeal in Nova Scotia and Saskatchewan.
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September 04, 2024
New Canadian Bar Association president begins tenure
Lynne M.J. Vicars begins her year-long tenure as the 96th president of the Canadian Bar Association (CBA), effective Sept. 3, 2024.
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August 23, 2024
Labour experts: Binding arbitration best hope to end rail strike, but could violate Charter
Binding arbitration offers the best hope of resolving the labour tensions plaguing Canada’s two major railways but still presents a potential legal risk, two labour relations experts observed Friday, Aug. 23, as the rapidly evolving dispute continued to unfold.
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August 08, 2024
Canada Post union seeking government intervention in contract negotiations
The Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) has announced that it has filed two notices of dispute with the minister of labour for its largest bargaining units, Urban Operations and Rural and Suburban Mail Carriers, as negotiations have not been reached.
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July 23, 2024
Canadian securities regulators stepped up enforcement in 2023-24, driven in part by crypto schemes
Canadian securities regulators commenced 83 enforcement proceedings between July 1, 2023, and June 30, 2024, with 27 cases of selling securities illegally making it the most common offence, according to the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) annual year-in-review report.
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July 18, 2024
Court finds doctor cannot amend libel claim against lawyer who represented car accident victim
The Ontario Superior Court of Justice’s Divisional Court has dismissed an appeal of a decision that denied a doctor’s request to amend his statement of claim in a libel case against a lawyer who was involved in a car accident insurance claim case.
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June 25, 2024
Alberta Court of Appeal again rejects injunction on $117M letter of credit in pipeline contract
The Alberta Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal concerning a dispute over a $117 million irrevocable letter of credit connected to a pipeline contract, finding that it could not stay its own previous decision allowing the letter to be called.
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June 17, 2024
Court rejects legal clinic’s intervention motion in NAFTA motorcycle trade dispute
The Ontario Court of Appeal has dismissed a legal clinic's request for intervener status in an international trade dispute between Mexico and a U.S.-based company in which arbitral procedural fairness was in dispute.
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June 11, 2024
Ex-Chief Justice of Canada says judges of Hong Kong’s Court of Final Appeal remain independent
In the wake of Beijing’s escalating crackdown on independent voices and institutions in Hong Kong since China enacted and expanded a sweeping “national security law,” Hong Kong’s top court is still independent, retired Supreme Court of Canada Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin said as she announced her planned departure next month from the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal.
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June 11, 2024
Appeal Court restores $1M award for fire-damaged property in 'important' insurance decision
The Ontario Court of Appeal has reinstated an umpire’s determination that the actual cash value (ACV) of a commercial premises partially destroyed in a fire was $1,084,000, finding that the award was not arbitrary even though it far exceeded the market value of the premises.